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NJFERS, PHOTO-UTPIOGRAFHE. WASHINGTON, D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH A. MEYER, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

BURIAL-GASKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,809, dated May 18, 1880. Application filed March 4, 1.879.

To all whom t may concern Beit known that JOSEPH A. MEYER, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Burial-Gaskets, of which the following is a speciiication, reference being had to the annexed drawings, in which- Figure l is a plan view of my improved burial-casket. Fig'. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan View of the removable cover for the casket. Fig. 4 is a transverse section, land Fig. 5 a longitudinal section.

rlhis invention appertains to improvements in burial-caskets; and itconsists in combining with the body ofthe casket havinga marginal groove in its upper edge a frame having a transparent cover and a similar hinged cover, an opaque removable cover or panel, and an outer dishing cover divided longitudinally, with the lower edges of the two halves resting upon the frame, substantially as hereinafter more fully setforth and claimed.

In the accompanyingdrawings I have represented my improved burial-casket.

A A is the Shen or body of the Casket',

which is constructed in any usual way and of any desired form, either with square or rounded corners. y

B B', Figs. 1,2, and 4, are the recessed lids7 which are hinged to the sides of the shell of the casket, and are arranged to shut together over the center thereof, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. il. The sides of the lids incline inwardly toward the top, so asto allow the lids, when open, to fall entirely below the top of the shell, as' represented in Fig. 4, the hinges a and a' being so constructed as to permit the lids to turn downward until the angles of the lid rest against the sides of the shell.

The lids may be of any .convenient form, the recess underneath them being made of greater or less depth, and the exterior iinished with panels, moldings, or veneering. The lids are provided with a lock for securing them t0- gether, what is known as a piano-lock l being most suitable for this purpose.

The interior of the lids may be trimmed with cloth or lace in any desired manner.

The lids are represented as ,open in Fig. l, showing the removable cover C, which is also represented in plan in Fig. 3 and in section in Fig. 5.

A molding, b, Fig. 4, runs all around on the.

edge of the casketshell, or on the outside of. 5 5

the shell at its top, and forms a rabbet or groove into which the removable cover C lits. The cover C is an open frame of a form corresponding to that of the casket, and provided with a hinged glass face-plate, D, at 011e end, 6o

and at the other end with a fixed glass plate, Gr, covered with a panel of'non-transparent material, E, Fig. 5. The glass face-plate D is` inclosed in a suitable frame whichis iitted in a recess in the cover, and is hinged at its lower 6 5 end to the cross-bar d. Any suitable catch may be used to secure the face-glass when closed.

The glass plate G is fastened in the cover by cleats, and thesolid panel E above it is 7o held in place by any convenient de\'ice-as, for instance, a catch, e, at the inner end, and a screw, g, in the cover.

In Fig. l the panel E is partly broken away to show the glass plate underneath it. 75

In Fig. 3 the panel is removed, as it would be in using the casket when it was desired to display the corpse at full length.

The panel E may be provided with mold ings around its edges, or ornamented in any 8o other way.

The interior of the casket may be trimmed in any desired manner, and its exterior may be finished with moldings or panels. l f

By reference to Fig. 4 it will be seen tha 85 the lids are so constructed that when closed the anglenearest the hinges a and a shuts down over the outer margin of the cover O. The cover is held in place by this arrangement.

It will be seen that by my invention an imroved burial-casket is provided which may e used entirely closed when the lids are shut,

y or, when the lids are turned down, open at half By making the lids I am aware that hinged covers divided ,roo

longitudinally have heretofore been used on-` burial-caskets, and such I do not claim.

I am also aware thatI burial-eases have been ble Cover or panel E, disposed above the cover provided with glass panels and covers. G, and the outer dishing cover, B B', divided I am also aware that longitudinally-divided longitudinally, with the lower edges of the two lids pivoted to the casket at each end have halves resting upon the frame C, as shown and 5 been heretofore applied to burial-Gaskets. described.

I ela-im- Thev combination, with the casket A,-Witl1 a JOSEPH A' MEYER' marginal groove in its upper edge, of the Witnesses: frame C, having the transparent cover G andV W. M. REBURZ, Jr., 1o similar hinged cover D, and opaque remova-y -GEoRGE B. SELDEN. 

